Experience a moving hands-on leadership workshop called "Failure isn't an option...but it should be!". A client gave me permission to share her story about how she found her passion based on her journey after facing bankruptcy, losing a family business and her home.

She discovered a passion for a completely new field and is now a motivational speaker and soon-to-be author.

Explore ways to overcome anxiety and take your own professional risk.

* Accelerateyour creativity and innovation – Change your story and change your life

*Increa$e your earning potential and lifetime nest egg - Turn around negative self-talk and subliminal messages so that we can become successful, happy and encourage innovation.

*What if your current definition of success and failure holds you back from moving forward?

*What if instead of the word “failure” you replaced it with empowering words like powerful, resilient, and strong?

*What if by repeating “Sometimes you have to change your story!” the equation of moving toward success and away from failure was turned around to go for NO instead of go for yes?

About The Speaker

Valli Swerdlow, MSW

VALLI AssociatesPresident

Valli Swerdlow, MSW, is the BABY VOOMER™ Career & Personal Brand Coach. Valli partners with boomer leaders undefined in the public and private sector undefined to make both mindful and heartfelt career transitions that will have an enduring impact on their lives and communities. She leverages her entrepreneurial spirit and colorful perspective to inspire her clients to achieve vantage, vitality, and victory.

As a Reach-Certified Personal Branding Strategist with certification in Leadership and Executive Coaching from the University of Rochester, Valli’s mission is to help her clients make the most of their passions and strengths as well as assist them in increasing their visibility to achieve their goals. Whether her clients are seeking mobility in their current organization or want to pursue their talents elsewhere, she quickly gains trust and creatively empowers them to pursue more rewarding work. She offers her services nationwide by phone and Skype and in her Washington D.C.-area office. With sensitivity to individual differences, Valli draws from her extensive career development "artist's box" including:

Proven career development and strategic planning methodologies;
A variety of 360° Leadership and reputation assessments; and,
Meyers-Briggs (MBTI) and Strong Interest Inventory.

After developing expertise over 11 years in international talent management with small-to-Fortune 500 corporate clients, Valli founded Valli Associates in 2008. Prior to that she enjoyed a career as a visionary designer/entrepreneur before earning her M.S.W. in Clinical and Family Therapy from Boston University and working as a clinical therapist for several years.Valli is a member of the International Coaching Federation, and serves as a member of the Steering Mentor/Protege Committee and as a mentor at Women in Technology.